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(*blink!*)
You did not just say that, did you?
Watch closely and I'll say it again: it was totally trivial.
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Do you think anything happens without money? Considering that they were using a military network system, do you think it could have been done without Congressional approval and spending?
None of which Al Gore had anything to do with, as far as I am aware. Are you swityching from saying that Gore recognised the civil, to recognising the military, virtues of the net?
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There was more than one networking protocol at the time. Ever heard of BITNET? If you didn't use VAXen, you might not have. It had the big relay chat thing long before the Internet was ever heard of.
Many protocols, only one INTERNET.
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".com"? What is this ".com" you speak of? There was no such thing as ".com" in 1983. The first name server didn't come online until 1984 and .com, .net., and .org domains didn't appear until 1985
They had allocated IP ranges from the earliest days, becuase the system was connected to university campuses and defence contravtors. The upper level domain system, and the DNS name lookup system, were introduced later as cosmetic improvements - but that does not change the underlying technology.
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"HTTP"? What is this "HTTP" you speak of? The advent of the browser wouldn't appear until the 90s. The Internet as we know it is from 1983. Do not confuse the fact that you are seeing a pretty picture rather than plain text with some sort of new "version" of the Internet.
I've been on the net since it was all FTP and Telnet, thanks. I'm well aware of what hypertext is. But I generously assumed that hypertext might be what you were referring to, becuase otherwise pretty much everything was done when packet switching was developed. 99% of what people EXPERIENCE is http.
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And how is that not developing the networking protocol used by the Internet? What do you think the "I" in "IP" stands for?
In the same way that designing the Ford Mondeo os not "inventing the car", it is designing A car. TCP/IP (Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is not the only packet-switching protocol, merely the best/maximally efficient.
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But they didn't! Where in their letter did they even hint that Gore had anything to do with programming the thing?
Duh, I didn't suggest they said that at all. Please read more closely.
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ow does one possibly interpret this statement to mean that he "invented" the internet? Wolf Blitzer certainly didn't think it was weird when Gore said it straight to his face and nobody in the media thought to say anything about it for two days after.
And why on earth would you expect the media to know what they were looking at? They merely record and regurgitate; in fact getting a response in two days is pretty quick, seeing as that arose from the public. He was a laughing stock before the media reflected that response.
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He didn't say what you think he said, contracycle. You bought the lie.
Did I, or did you?
GORE: "Well, I will -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins, and it'll be comprehensive and sweeping, and I hope that it'll be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be. But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. "
The U. S. Government
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And that's exactly what he did. He created what was necessary to make the Internet what we have today. The bill that does so bears his name. It's called the "Gore Act."
And what does it do, and why would a packet switching network care?
I can find:
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"This "Gore Act" supported the National Research and Education Network (NREN) initiative that became one of the major vehicles for the spread of the Internet beyond the field of computer science."
What does that mean exactly? And how does this initiative in 1991 have anything to do with a technology, packet switching, which essentially IS the internet and was operational from the mid 60's?
It remains nonsense I'm afraid:
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Summary of eRumor:
Al Gore has made statements that he is the creator of the Internet.
bullet The Truth:
This comes from a television interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer that was aired on March 9,1999. TruthOrFiction.com has a transcript of the entire broadcast. Vice President Gore was not yet a formal candidate for the presidency, but was clearly setting the stage for it, and Blitzer's questions focused on his potential campaign. At one point, Blitzer asked Gore why the Democrats should support him over rival Bill Bradley. Gore answered, "Well, I will -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins, and it'll be comprehensive and sweeping, and I hope that it'll be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be. But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Some of the emails criticizing Gore for this statement point out that Gore has often shown ignorance about computers, so how could he have created the Internet? He did not claim, however, to be a computer geek who toiled in his basement and came up with the idea. He did claim that somehow as a member of congress he not only played in role in creating the Internet, but "took the initiative" to do it.
To his credit, Al Gore has participated in advancing information technology. When he was a senator, he supported funding for NSFNet through the High Performance Computing Act that became law in 1991. He wrote guest columns for Byte magazine that reflected an appreciation of technology. But even his supporters have to say that any notion of having created the Internet is tough to stomach.
According to the encyclopedia Britannica, the Internet dates back to at least 1973 and in an article that broke the Gore story, Declan McCullagh of Wired News says the Net goes back as far as 1967 when Al gore was 19 years old. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency started experimenting with ways to allow networked computers to link and communicate. It was called The Internetting project and the ultimate system became known as The Internet. In a related article on March 11, 1999 in Wired News, McCullagh says Gore has introduced bills about software for teachers and a "federal research center for educational computing to support an "information systems highway."
We've never found any explanation by Gore as to why he made the claim, but he did have a sense of humor about it. At a meeting of Democratic leaders, he said, " I was pretty tired when I made that comment because I had been up very late the night before inventing the camcorder."
Al Gore claimed responsibility for creation of the Internet-Truth! - Truth or Fiction?
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